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Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
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Past and current policy issues concerning tropical deforestation in Brazil [PDF]

This paper discusses past and current policies concerning tropical deforestation in Brazil. In the last few years, the Brazilian government has reviewed and changed many aspects of past policies that encouraged deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon ...
Motta, Ronaldo Serôa da
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Opportunities to responsible land-based investments in Central Africa [PDF]

, 2013
Large-scale land-based investments in Central Africa are not new, however, the years 2000s have seen a renewed interest in agriculture by foreign investors.
Feintrenie, Laurène
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Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low‐carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio‐political strategies present within these maps
William Monteith
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Navigating Tensions and Contradictions: The Everyday Negotiation of Militant Research

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper explores the tensions and contradictions generated when conducting militant research from within academia. More specifically, it focuses on how they play out and shape militant research on an everyday basis, and how they are constantly negotiated by militant researchers and mediated by their diverse positionalities.
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
wiley   +1 more source

What Green Economy? Diverse agendas, their tensions and potential futures [PDF]

, 2014
The 'green economy' has become a prominent global concept for debating desirable futures, while recasting or marginalising ‘sustainable development’.
Levidow, Les
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Roadblock Geographies: A Typology of Extraction, Circulation, and Authority in Conflict

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This article develops a typology of roadblock geographies in conflict‐affected borderlands as extractive landscapes. Drawing on transport geography, it identifies how infrastructural variation—footpaths, roads and ports—shapes who extracts rents, how and to what effect.
Peer Schouten
wiley   +1 more source

Alternativas al modelo extractivista: El territorio en re‑existencia del Chocó Andino

L'Ordinaire des Amériques
The extractivist model is imposed in Ecuador, as in Latin America, under pressure from the Washington Consensus, the Commodities Consensus, the Beijing Consensus and the decarbonization consensus.
Álvaro Sanchez Roble
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation narratives in Peru: envisioning biodiversity in sustainable development

Ecology and Society, 2016
In the mega-diverse country Peru, a resource intensive development model collides with the interest of conserving biodiversity. Peruvian biodiversity experts have developed different lines of argumentation as to how to integrate conservation into the ...
Yves M. Zinngrebe
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Can You See Us Now? Negotiating Indigenous Citizenship at a Road Blockade in Argentinean Chaco

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper explores the spatial dimension of Indigenous citizenship by examining how it is experienced, negotiated and enacted during a road blockade in the Argentinean Chaco. Stressing the political dimension of infrastructure, the paper highlights the blockade as a critical site and moment for observing the framing and reframing of ...
Alberto Preci
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